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Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage and the Association for Documentary Editing will hold a joint conference in October 2026 in Houston with the theme "Record Keepers of Nation: Diverse Foundational Figures and Documents of the US." For details, see
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Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">XVIII Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage/Association for Documentary Editing 2026, a joint conference</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><i>Record Keepers of Nation: Diverse Foundational Figures and Documents of the US</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">October 8-10, 2026 · Houston, Texas</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(33, 42, 94);"><a href="https://artepublicopress.com/recovery-program/" id="OWAcb3bcabc-e549-b284-c20d-d4587c6f2161" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(33, 42, 94);">The Recovering the US Hispanic Literary
Heritage Program</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Recovery) and the
</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 42, 94);"><a href="https://www.documentaryediting.org/" id="OWA492076fc-f577-232f-10a1-6b09eab1ea16" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(33, 42, 94);">Association for Documentary Editing</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (ADE)
invite proposals for a joint conference to be held October 8-10, 2026 in Houston, Texas. This first-ever collaboration between Recovery and ADE will bring together scholars, archivists, editors, students and community practitioners to explore how figures and
documents—canonical, forgotten, official and grassroots—have shaped the histories, literatures and identities of the United States.</span></div>
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The conference theme, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Record Keepers of Nation: Diverse Foundational Figures and Documents of the US</span>, highlights the intersection, conflicts and compromises of people, papers, voices, archives and biographies of first
nations, natives, settlers, immigrants and exiles that have forged collective memory and national narratives. The conference will emphasize recovery, preservation and dissemination of the historical records of various communities that expand and unsettle our
understanding of the nation’s foundation.</div>
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Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage is an international program to locate, preserve and make available Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1980. The Association for Documentary Editing promotes the publication
of a broad range of materials of historical value in print and digital formats and supports cooperation and exchange of ideas among a diverse community of editors.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Suggested themes</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Foundational Texts and Archives</span></div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Petitions, letters, legal texts and manifestos as historical and cultural sources</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Printing, journalism, literature and oral traditions in shaping community histories</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">US independence and its impact on Latin American independence movements</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">The United States as a site of exile, organizing and activism for Latin American independence movements</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Collections and archives: accessioning, curation and critical archival studies</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Methodologies in documentary editing, preservation and digital archiving</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Digital humanities approaches to foundational texts and archival recovery</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">People and Movements</span></div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Studies of activists, writers and intellectuals who shaped the US</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Analytical studies of recovered authors, voices and texts</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">The role of women’s writings in shaping intellectual and cultural histories</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Gender, sexualities and queer approaches to the archive</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Folklore, testimonios, oral histories and multilingual voices in the US record</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Theories, Silences and Interventions</span></div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Archival silences, erasures and the politics of preservation</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Critical, historical and theoretical frameworks for recovered texts</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">The intersections of biography, memory and national identity</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Historiography, language, translation, bilingualism and linguistics</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Religious thought, practice and their archival traces</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Material culture as a site of memory and recovery</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Pedagogy and Practice</span></div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Curriculum development: integrating recovered texts into K–12 and higher education</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Library and information science approaches to preservation and accessibility</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Submission Guidelines</span></div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Proposal Types:</span> Individual papers (10-15 minutes) and posters. [No panel submission, please]. Individuals may only present one paper or poster.</div>
<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;">Undergraduate participation is welcome through poster presentations.</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Abstracts:</span> 250 words maximum. Please include a paper/poster title, participant(s) name(s), institutional affiliation(s), 3-5 keywords and a brief bio
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Languages:</span> Proposals may be submitted in English or Spanish. Presentations may be delivered in either language.</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Deadline:</span> December 1, 2025</div>
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</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 42, 94);"><a href="https://bit.ly/recoveryade26" id="OWAba6a3712-d85a-af79-fe97-e33391c16eca" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(33, 42, 94);">https://bit.ly/recoveryade26</a></span></div>
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<b>Registration and Membership</b></div>
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<i>Recovery/Arte Público Press, the University of Houston System and the Association for Documentary Editing are committed to creating and maintaining harassment-free communities of practice. By attending the Conference, you acknowledge your commitment to contributing
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